, that america would suddenly be beloved by all. what the president seems not to understand, what is most important in terms of a country's standing is that you are respected not necessarily liked. so the president's effort to make everyone like us i think has made us look weak. >> so it's had the opposite effect? >> that's exactly right. what's happened is, the united states is perceived as, first of all, tenuous about making decisions. we had what happened in egypt, for example, the administration was really i think very slow and has still been slow to understand the muslim brotherhood was not democratic. we had the president drawing lines in the sand about syria saying the united states would not stand for the use of chemical weapons. that was going to be a red line. and yet nothing happens after that. so it's no surprise that vladimir putin decided, well, you know, there was this guy with all these nice secrets in a computer, and he was going to give him asylum and basically thumb his nose at the president of the united states.